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Tag Archives: journal
Plant-filled travel post-it
It’s been a travel month, with trips to both beloved rainy home places and exciting new sunny ones, all with their own mesmerising summertime colours 🏞🌧🌲🌷🌿🌺🌵🌞 🌅 I’ve got a whole backlog of paintings and sketchbook pages to put up, but … Continue reading
Posted in Daily drawings, Doodling, Illustration, Sketchbook, travel
Tagged art, arts, bird, blog, doodle, drawing, flowers, Holiday, holidays, Illustration, journal, painting, pen, plants, post-it note, travel, traveling, watercolor, watercolour
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Ode to Lamps
I feel like I have so many sketchbook drawings piling up clamouring to be posted… and I keep not getting round to cleaning them up and helping them hop onto this blog. While I get onto scrubbing up those patiently waiting … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Critters!, Doodling, Illustration
Tagged an epic tale, art, arts, cartoon, comic, comics, daily drawing, drawing, furniture, homour, Illustration, ink, journal, lamp, lamps, life, lol, nonsense, pen, post-it notes, silly, story, watercolour
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Hourly Comics Day 2017
Yesterday was hourly comics day, for which you draw a small comic for every hour of the day. I’ve taken part in the past (here are the ones for 2015, 2014, 2012, and here’s one I did for a journey of … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Doodling, Illustration
Tagged anxiety, cass art, coffee, comic, comics, dogs, emails, fox, Holland Park, hourlies, hourly comics, hourly comics day, hourly comics day 2017, ink, journal, London, pen, steven universe, straight to ink, The Archers, watercolour
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New Year snoozing / sketching
Happy New Year! Sorry, a little late as I’ve been mostly sleeping off some sort of bug. Been thinking about last year and the year to come and drew some of the thoughts up. Hope this year brings you … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Critters!, Doodling, Illustration, Sketchbook, travel
Tagged 2016, 2017, art, arts, comic, comics, drawing, Illustration, japan, journal, sketchbook, stress, travel
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In-East Exhibition
My Messenger Birds over Seoul illustration is also on show elsewhere: there’s a small exhibition of my drawings up in the East Asian departmental hall of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany! Featured are dozens of sketchbook drawings, paintings, journal comics,and … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Comics, Illustration, painting, Sketchbook, Taiwan journal, travel
Tagged art, arts, Birds, Cards, comics, dogs, drawing, Drawings, Duisburg, exhibition, Hong Kong, hourly comics, Illustration, japan, journal, riyue tan, sketchbook, sketchbook drawings, sun moon lake, Taipei, Taiwan, travel, University of Duisburg-Essen, 日月潭
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Show visitors & princesses
Recently I had a small and very impromptu show of some of my illustrations, cards and sketchbooks at some wonderful friends’ house, as part of an open house / studio art route in town. It was a first for me, … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Comics, Critters!, Doodling, Illustration, Sketchbook
Tagged art, art show, arts, Cards, children, comic, comics, critters, digital drawing, doodles, drawing, exposition, fun, Game of Thrones, girls, humour, Illustration, ink, Jikke van Loon, journal, kids, kunst kiezel klei, kunst route, painting, pen, plants, princess, princesses, prinses, prinsessen, Sansa Stark, show, sketchbook, stress, stress beast, Zaltbommel
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Grand new visitor
Woodpeckers are notoriously vain and who can blame them.
Posted in BIRDS and their secrets, Comics, Doodling
Tagged animals, arts, Birds, comics, daily drawings, doodling, drawing, flowers, Garden, gardens, happiness, Illustration, journal, nature, peanuts, pen, plants, sketchbook, watercolour, woodpecker, woodpeckers
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Dailies: cycling and beaks
Daily drawings: This week I was given a lovely old-fashioned ‘oma fiets’ bike and cycled to work. As an officially Dutch person it’s sort of shameful to admit, but I was pretty nervous about it! Partly because I’m not that … Continue reading
Posted in BIRDS and their secrets, Daily drawings, Sketchbook
Tagged art, arts, Birds, canals, crane, cycling, daily drawing, drawing, ibis, journal, London, London Zoo, pen, sketchbook
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Last of the January dailies
More dailies. They’re just tiny day-snippets, but I’ve been enjoying them as drawing breaks, and using them to explore digital colouring using my tablet and a fancy programme (manga studio). Some days are just full of sighs. Others bring treasure … Continue reading
Posted in Daily drawings, Illustration, Sketchbook
Tagged Bryan Lee O'Malley, Camden, coffee, daffodils, dailies, daily drawings, graphic novels, Illustration, january, journal, London, manga studio, moods, seconds, sighs, work
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January Dailies (guest starring the Shopping Basket of Regrets)
A few more dailies from the first week of January. Don’t take your stress beast in to work. Or, if it insists on following you, make it keep the paperwork in check.
Posted in Critters!, Daily drawings
Tagged arts, comics, critters, dailies, daily drawing, drawing, journal, new job, sketchbook, stress beast, supermarkets, work
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